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elvis presley in memphis
September 16, 2012 peter bell
Elvis Presley’s family moved to Memphis, TN from Tupelo, MS in search of a better life. The young Elvis would have been 13 years old when he arrived in Memphis on September 12, 1948. The city of Memphis became synonymous with Elvis, and a number of locations from those early days (before Elvis became an […]
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Johnny Cash locations
June 12, 2012 peter bell
Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]
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